In another report, on the public acceptability of incineration, the society says: "There remain concerns, both about other impacts of incinerators on the local environment, and about their place in the national waste hierarchy" (the choice of waste disposal methods).
Thai royals, for example, historically had their bodies cremated many months after death, with their remains being moved from urn to urn until the final day of incineration, in the belief that the soul moves through a gradual transformation, exiting the earth and entering the spiritual world.
Val Barton, of the Campaign Against the Incineration of Rubbish, lives under the smokestack of the Byker Incinerator in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Hilarious account of auto parts investment fund Asimco and its incineration of hundreds of millions of dollars.
There is no question that, even after the incineration of its cities, Japan still had the capacity to inflict unacceptable losses upon an invading army.
Friends of the Earth wants to see higher recycling targets brought in, along with a tax on burning waste and the removal of current financial incentives for incineration.
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It says health problems linked to incineration include some forms of cancer, heart disease, birth defects, allergies and breathing problems.
The EU has identified construction and demolition waste as a priority waste stream which means that policies and measures ensuring increased recycling of CND waste versus landfill and incineration will take priority.
Eye on Wales discovered 16 councils were at different stages of signing up to creating fuel for incineration.
Simon Bacon, chairman of Sinfin, Spondon and all Against Incineration (SSAIN), said the judge will rule on whether the plant is mainly a disposal facility or a recovery facility.
The preferred mode in Europe is to build not a few hugely expensive incineration behemoths but a larger number of smaller, community-based utilities that burn trash to provide electricity and heat through underground conduits.
Incineration could save up to a gigatonne of emissions if widely adopted, says Covanta's boss, Anthony Orlando.
The largest one, the Tuas South Incineration Plant, cranks out 80 megawatts of electricity, one-fifth of which powers the plant and four-fifths of which is sold to Singapore Power.
Putting the bakery goods and coffee grounds through a biorefining process would also have the added benefit of keeping a lot of waste out of the waste stream while also reducing pollution from incineration.
Some local citizens' groups, helped by a number of their elected representatives, have challenged the conventional wisdom that incineration is best.
The report included findings such as the incinerator being "far too big" to meet the needs of the county, and that other waste solutions out-performed incineration.
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